Hey, y’all… Here’s your linkage… Enjoy.
- Kapil Patel argues that a growing awareness of India’s declining conventional deterrence vis-a-vis China has led it to create a new mountain strike corps of 40,000 men.
- Alec Metz at Registan reviews this year’s Eid message from the sub-literate but charismatic Mullah Muhammad Omar.
- Ajit Sahi argues that despite the very significant flare-up in Indo-Pak tensions last week along the Line of Control, India needs to engage more, not less, with Pakistan to end the conflict.
- Buddhist-Muslim violence has flared in Sri Lanka as the Myanmar conflict continues to spill over.
- Asawin Suebsaeng says Matt Damon shoots his way to universal health care in “Elysium”. (You do have to hand it to a film which models the evil antagonist on the IMF’s Managing Director, Christine Lagarde.)
Vikash is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. His main areas of academic interest are (post-) globalization, economic development, and economic freedom, with a regional focus on South Asia
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